Posted by laima on February 19, 2007, at 19:12:17
In reply to Re: Everything I believe may be wrong » Squiggles, posted by munificentexegete on February 19, 2007, at 18:59:38
So, are you positing that there is no such thing as mental illness or disorder because you feel that the concept is a social construct and/or because blood tests are not providing you with the evidence you require? Or, are you trying to say you think "mental illness" is a conspiracy to sell medications? I don't get it.If you doubt any mental illness exists, why would you even suggest blood tests for them in the first place? Somehow, this isn't adding up for me, and yet I don't get the sense that you are struggleing with any paradox or doing any searching in your views.
What do you make of the biological markers for schizophrenia, depression, etc? It's not all clinically useful yet, but markers are being found and people are actively studying them.
Just curious, do you believe in, say, diabetes? Cancer? Infectious diseases?
> cause isn't an issue.
> an illness
> defined as a purely
> subjective concept
> is an arbitrarily imposable
> construct allowing anyone
> to be defined as ill.
>
> a subjective illness
> does not objectively
> separate the sick
> from the well
> and therefore
> does not define an illness
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